Rudolf August Usinger (7 July 1835 – 31 May 1874) was a German
historian born in
Nienburg.
He studied history at the
University of Göttingen, where he was a pupil of
Georg Waitz
Georg Waitz (9 October 1813 – 24 May 1886) was a German medieval historian and politician. Waitz is often spoken of as the leading disciple of Leopold von Ranke, though perhaps he had more affinity with Georg Heinrich Pertz or Friedrich Christo ...
(1813-1886). In 1863 he became a lecturer at
Göttingen, and afterwards a professor of history at the Universities of
Greifswald (from 1865) and
Kiel (from 1868). Also, he was secretary of the Association for
Schleswig-Holstein History.
Usinger is credited with editing the first volume of
Siegfried Hirsch's ''Jahrbüchern des Deutschen Reichs unter Heinrich II'' (Annals
of the German Empire under
Henry II). Among his better known publications are the following:
* ''Die dänischen Annalen und Chroniken des Mittelalters'' (The Danish annals and chronicles of the
Middle Ages), 1861.
* ''Deutsch-dänische Geschichte 1189-1227'' (German-Danish history 1189-1227), 1863.
* ''Napoleon, der Rheinische und der Nordische Bund'' (
Napoleon
Napoleon Bonaparte ; it, Napoleone Bonaparte, ; co, Napulione Buonaparte. (born Napoleone Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military commander and political leader who ...
, the
Rhineland and the Nordic Federation), 1865.
* ''Forschungen zur Lex Saxonum'', (Research of
Lex Saxonum), 1867.
* ''Die Anfänge der deutschen Geschichte'' (The beginnings of
German history), 1875.
References
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19th-century German historians
Academic staff of the University of Kiel
Academic staff of the University of Greifswald
1835 births
1874 deaths
People from Nienburg, Lower Saxony
19th-century German male writers
German male non-fiction writers
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